Sunday, 27 January 2008

Retro games (UNFINISHED)

Okay, this is a bit random but i'm writing about retro games. You probably have heard of pac-man but do you actually know anything about it? It was invented by Nolan Bushnell, a Silicon Valley Pioneer (Whatever that is) in 1987. It was an arcade game in which you need to eat pills and avoid the nasty ghosties! Hooray! 200,000 machines were created.(Not including the ones they make today for old-school video gamers) Pac-man was not the first (Believe it or not) but 'pong' was. It's like ping-pong but the name 'Ping-Pong' was copyrighted so they called it 'pong'. How sad is that!!??!! It appeared in some bar or pub in America and some guy saw it, inserted a coin and got hooked! A crowd gathered to watch it and pong machines went into mass production. Soon every bar had one. You're probably thinking 'What about Mario?'

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